"synestia" meaning in All languages combined

See synestia on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /sɪˈnɛstɪə/ Forms: synestias [plural]
Etymology: From syn- (“together”) + Hestia. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|syn-|Hestia|t1=together}} syn- (“together”) + Hestia Head templates: {{en-noun}} synestia (plural synestias)
  1. (astrophysics) A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects. Categories (topical): Astrophysics

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "syn-",
        "3": "Hestia",
        "t1": "together"
      },
      "expansion": "syn- (“together”) + Hestia",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From syn- (“together”) + Hestia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "synestias",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "synestia (plural synestias)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with syn-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Astrophysics",
          "orig": "en:Astrophysics",
          "parents": [
            "Astronomy",
            "Physics",
            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 May 23, SJ Lock, ST Stewart, “The structure of terrestrial bodies: Impact heating, corotation limits, and synestias”, in Journal of Geophysical Research:",
          "text": "For any rotating planetary body, there is a thermal limit beyond which the rotational velocity at the equator intersects the Keplerian orbital velocity. Beyond this corotation limit (CoRoL), a hot planetary body forms a structure, which we name a synestia, with a corotating inner region connected to a disk-like outer region.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 June 3, Shannon Hall, “Early Earth was a molten doughnut”, in New Scientist, volume 234, number 3128, page 10:",
          "text": "For a brief time during its infancy, Earth was a hot, doughnut-shaped blob called a synestia. […] A synestia has an exterior region marked by clouds of molten rock and dust, all at a scorching 2000°C or hotter.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 24, G. Jeffrey Taylor, “Volatile Elements Test Models for the Origin of the Moon”, in Planetary Science Research Discoveries:",
          "text": "The investigation also examined the geochemical consequences of lunar formation resulting from the high-energy collision of proto-planets that created a huge, vaporized, doughnut-shaped object called a synestia.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects."
      ],
      "id": "en-synestia-en-noun-KGJHFsU9",
      "links": [
        [
          "astrophysics",
          "astrophysics"
        ],
        [
          "donut",
          "donut"
        ],
        [
          "molten",
          "molten"
        ],
        [
          "rock",
          "rock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astrophysics) A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astrophysics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɪˈnɛstɪə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "synestia"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "syn-",
        "3": "Hestia",
        "t1": "together"
      },
      "expansion": "syn- (“together”) + Hestia",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From syn- (“together”) + Hestia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "synestias",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "synestia (plural synestias)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with syn-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Astrophysics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 May 23, SJ Lock, ST Stewart, “The structure of terrestrial bodies: Impact heating, corotation limits, and synestias”, in Journal of Geophysical Research:",
          "text": "For any rotating planetary body, there is a thermal limit beyond which the rotational velocity at the equator intersects the Keplerian orbital velocity. Beyond this corotation limit (CoRoL), a hot planetary body forms a structure, which we name a synestia, with a corotating inner region connected to a disk-like outer region.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 June 3, Shannon Hall, “Early Earth was a molten doughnut”, in New Scientist, volume 234, number 3128, page 10:",
          "text": "For a brief time during its infancy, Earth was a hot, doughnut-shaped blob called a synestia. […] A synestia has an exterior region marked by clouds of molten rock and dust, all at a scorching 2000°C or hotter.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 24, G. Jeffrey Taylor, “Volatile Elements Test Models for the Origin of the Moon”, in Planetary Science Research Discoveries:",
          "text": "The investigation also examined the geochemical consequences of lunar formation resulting from the high-energy collision of proto-planets that created a huge, vaporized, doughnut-shaped object called a synestia.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astrophysics",
          "astrophysics"
        ],
        [
          "donut",
          "donut"
        ],
        [
          "molten",
          "molten"
        ],
        [
          "rock",
          "rock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astrophysics) A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astrophysics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɪˈnɛstɪə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "synestia"
}

Download raw JSONL data for synestia meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.